I'm not actually dead; it's simply that I realized I had bought some server space and might as well put my own blog there, one where I could PLAY BY MY OWN RULES.
Of course I still check this blog with regularity to see what friends have to say. However, new content goes on the new blag.

"You're damned right I did," I said, losing my cool. "I learned that they can't be trusted. That if you're not fighting them, you're helping them. That they'll turn the country into a prison if we let them. What did you learn, Van? To be scared all the time, to sit tight and keep your head down and hope you don't get noticed? You think it's going to get better? If we don't do anything, this is as good as it's going to get. It will only get worse and worse from now on. You want to help Darryl? Help me bring them down!"